fIREHOSE, the Harvey Girls, the Reivers and more take Daniel Johnston's classic for a stroll in the pasture.
In surveying jangle-pop albums, calling an album great makes allowance for more uninspired tracks than on most other genre releases. Like early '50s rock albums by groups like the Everly Brothers – who inspired many of them – they are slipshod assemblies of 45s and tracks produced to sound faintly like those 45s. They're nevertheless [...]
We go back in time for this lost gem. Its sounds are vaguely recognizable as pop, but as the kind of pop somehow reconfigured from secondhand rumors, hazy and jagged reminiscences. Songs constructed from the rusty shards from the broken down chassis that litter the front lawn of alt-rock's trailer home.
Austin, TX is a hot bed for music. There is no denying that. If you have ever been there you can just feel the buzz on 6th Street. Deep in the heart of Texas scores of bands come and go, but an Austin band called The Reivers had a small, but fervent following. Sometimes, if you are like me and you just crave that CD you missed, you come across a record that has a lot of critical buzz many years later. The Reivers' End of The Day has that kind of cult following. I bought this album about seven years [...]
What elements go into making a good mixtape? It's a conversation I've had with many...and something I thought about driving home from Milwaukee this afternoon. In my opinion, a good mixtape is something that creates new avenues to travel. It immediately shines a new light to someplace previously unexplored. Know what I mean? About a decade ago, my friend Paul made me a mixtape that literally took me a few years to fully digest. The mix had a few songs on it that were instantly more accessible than others. I explored those band's discographies first and when there [...]
Fitzgerald's is a crusty old dive in The Heights section of Houston. The white wood on its facade falling apart, the upstairs floor so weak you always felt like you were going to fall through, "Fitz" has seen its share of acts since opening its doors in 1977. ZZ Top, Etta James, David Allan Coe. and even the "Godfather of Soul" James Brown are just a few who lit up the stage. In the mid-80s, I was playing drums for The Surrealtors. We were asked by the brass at Fitzgeralds to open for a band called The Reivers, a [...]
Today's post is about a true giant in the world of country music: Fred Rose. He was one of the first three men inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. (The other two were none other than Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams). He penned the classic song that provides the title track to this website, along with many other tunes made famous by Hank Williams. And he was the first person in the music industry to "discover" Hank Williams' talent, athough he originally hired Hank for his songwriting talents not as a singer. Beyond discovering Hank, Fred [...]
I thought it only appropriate to get this "singles" ball rolling with the song I consider to be my favorite of all time. Or, at least, that's what I tell people when they happen to ask. The Reivers , for the uninitiated, were a fabulous band from Austin, Texas, extant from the mid 80s to the early 90s. This track found its way to me by way of a compilation put out in 1990 (it was originally scheduled for a 1984 release) by the legendary DB Records . Look for more cuts from the comp [...]
Cover Me
Obscure Sound
The Giant Panther
Rock Sellout
30 Days Out
Setting The Woods On Fire
Keys To Me
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